Time Quote by Paulo Coelho

“We rob ourselves of immeasurable joy when we compare what we do know about ourselves with what we don’t know about someone else.”

— Rob Bell

“Now he understood that a man never knows for whom he suffers and hopes. He suffers and hopes and toils for people he will…

— Alejo Carpentier

“There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions, who will do anything. Of course we make him pay afterward for his…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“He is not, perhaps, overjoyed—but joy is not a characteristic of my people; it is considered too youthful, and therefore, too easily destroyed.”

— Michelle Sagara

“Alas, he himself was a man too easily encouraged, too completely seduced by hope, only to be devastated by disappointment. He’d been born to…

— Richard Russo

“How can he not share his newfound joy with his fellow man? And it is joy. There’s a pure kind of joy in the…

— Nicola Yoon

“A man can achieve his own happiness only by pursuing the happiness of others, because it is only by forgetting about his own happiness…

— Lao Tzu

“For once you yourself cease to take pleasure in the common enjoyments of life, you hate the normal man who is so much more…

— J.P.V.D. Balsdon

“the supreme manifestation of all his self-perceived shortcomings”

— Chuck Palahniuk

“He knows how selfish, how unreasonable, how self-absorbed he is being, and he is miserable but unable to stop himself [...]”

— Hanya Yanagihara

“In his own life, then, a man is not to expect happiness, only to profit by it gladly when it shall arise; he is…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“Thus, in the realm of human relationships, a different form of pleasure is experienced, a different sort of motivation is involved, and a different…

— Ayn Rand